How a chocolate drink helps Kuna Indians

Todays's research is on Kuna Indians and how a chocolate drink helps keep them from having high plood pressure cases and heart disease. I just pulled parts of this article, you will find a link to the full article below.

The researchers headed to Panama, where the Kuna Indians traditionally drink three or four cups of homemade cocoa per day.

The Kuna Indians who live in their traditional location -- Panama’s San Blas islands -- have rare cases of high blood pressure and heart disease compared with Kuna Indians who move to Panama’s mainland, who drink less than four cups of the cocoa per week.

Stress and other dietary practices don’t explain the pattern, Hollenberg says.

“You take all the known environmental factors and put them together, and they don’t bring blood pressure that low. So we think it really is something special about eating these flavonoids,” he says.

Blood pressure tends to rise with age. But after age 60, average blood pressure for the Kuna Indian islanders is 110/70, Hollenberg says.

Blood pressure of 110/70 is in the normal range. In the U.S., more than half of people age 60 and older have high blood pressure, according to the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

The Kuna let their cocoa roast in the sun, Hollenberg notes. “What the Kuna Indians do is they treat it very gently. Not to retain the flavonoids; that’s just the way they do it,” he says.

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